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  • Shel Safe & Sound Pounds Presentation (video)

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  • Safe & Sound Pounds

    From PetRescue today... "An inspiring lineup of national and international speakers came together at the 2015 G2Z Summit, including our very own top dog, director Shel Williamson. Shel rocked the podium to bring the Safe & Sound Pounds me...
  • Over and out

      In January 2008, I started Saving Pets to give myself a place to bounce ideas off a very small group of like-minded rescue industry friends. Back then it felt like there were only two voices in animal welfare; the major animal welfare...
  • We’ve got this absolutely and utterly ass-backwards…

    The cat rescue pyramid...     (click to enlarge)...
  • The great and powerful LDH

     "Pay no attention to that man behind the curtain..."   There's been massive media coverage surrounding the Lost Dogs Home's performance. Unfortunately for the LDH, this current outpouring of community anger is not simply a small PR hiccu...

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Latest News

  • Shel Safe & Sound Pounds Presentation (video)

  • Safe & Sound Pounds

  • Over and out

  • We’ve got this absolutely and utterly ass-backwards…

  • The great and powerful LDH

  • Celebrating OC!

  • What now for the Lost Dogs Home?

  • ‘Too many pound pets, not enough homes’ in 2015

  • Lost Dogs Home vigil and broken trust

  • A break from regular programming – good news Friday

  • Where the hell is Graeme Smith?

  • Tipping point

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  • Can you identify a ‘pit bull’

  • Charlie and Sharni will be killed

  • Australian rescue news

  • Remembering Bob

  • VIC spends hundreds of thousands of $ to kill innocent pets

  • A case study in media bias

No Kill »

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  • Shel Safe & Sound Pounds Presentation (video)

  • Safe & Sound Pounds

  • A history of No Kill and the RSPCA

  • Hawkesbury Companion Animal Shelter does the ‘impossible’

  • RSPCA NSW’s new truth – pet lovers are no long happy to fund killing

  • Will you be a voice for pets?

adoptions »

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  • A break from regular programming – good news Friday

  • Fighting ‘free’

  • Hawkesbury Companion Animal Shelter does the ‘impossible’

  • Let the world know an adopted dog is part of your family

  • Central Highlands Regional Council’s rescue partnership saves pets

  • ‘It’s not us, it’s you’. The Lost Dogs Home discusses high kill rates

cats »

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  • We’ve got this absolutely and utterly ass-backwards…

  • Celebrating OC!

  • How to manage cats

  • Cat Haven; help please everyone stop enforcing the cat laws now – we’re swamped

  • 100 cats seized by the RSPCA WA – will a single one make it out alive?

  • Shooting cats in WA

council pound »

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  • ‘Too many pound pets, not enough homes’ in 2015

  • Angus

  • The Lost Dogs Home still stuck in a brutal past

  • Before you start a Facebook page for your pound

  • The lost pet revolution is coming

  • The inevitable Christmas rush

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  • Before you start a Facebook page for your pound

  • Sucking the joy out of adoptions

  • Our model of animal adoptions is broken

  • Does colour matter when it comes to cat adoptions?

  • Understanding the difference between a public shaming & an adoption drive

  • Yet another study showing free adoptions are good for pets

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